[IT'S MEME TIME AGAIN]

[antreegonist]

I NEED...A DISTRACTION!

Questions meme, you know how it goes! I play Mithos and Firebird, and you can ask about Lark if you want.

I probably won't pick up full steam on answering questions until tonight after class, Persona answers may be vague, etc.

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[antreegonist]

Mithos loves pasta! Mithos actually loves food in general; he can sometimes have snooty chef standards and he tolerates large amounts of sweet stuff poorly but otherwise he will just inhale what is on the table.

...IN POSSIBLY MORE RELEVANT NEWS Mithos got super fond of Pascal super quick aaaahhh. Pascal has just been really earnest and adorablawkward and honest around Mithos a-and he can't help but respond well to that! CUDDLE PRACTICE. Also Pascal's warning about having an alternate personality is an oh noooo obviously. He actually needs to check on Amethyst in general once he stops being flattened by heart fallout and Chance's quest. He's worried about Ryner, worried about Pascal, and needs to see if Pascal still wants those sword lessons.

... tell me what is up with Syaoran's scary split personality anyway, I am hella not canon-familiar

[featherfetch]

Haha it's not really a split personality, that's just what he/Amethyst thinks it is.

This Syaoran is actually a clone created through magic of the original Syaoran, except he was created without a heart (which seems to mean the capacity to forge relationships and feel emotions and even physical pain :|a). And there was apparently a directive to obey his creator + search for the feathers no matter what built in there.

AND THEN the original Syaoran was like "oh shit son this is bad" and split his own heart in half and sealed one half into the copy's eye (which is actually why he's blind in one eye).

And then the clone grew up and basically that borrowed half of a heart was like a crutch for him to build his own relationships and the capacity to feel things. Until the seal breaks which causes him to lose connection to his own 'heart' as well and he reverts to default factory settings and kills lots of stuff.

So basically that's it! His 'heart' overrides what he was created to be so if it gets lost/disconnected/out of touch/whatever things get a little special.

I am also super not canon-familiar, but I know Mithos is supposed to be the villain so... how does that work??? He seems so nice and friendly 8|a

[antreegonist]

Mithos as a teenager was a half-elf who traveled with his sister in a world where there was extreme racial prejudice coming from every side towards half-elves! There was actually a huge war going on that was killing his world, and he actually started out as a hero because he went on a journey and fulfilled a crazy plan to pact with all the Summon Spirits (basically Persona analogues) in the world! And then he stopped the war by gaining the power to shape reality to his wishes pretty much.

Except then humans went and assassinated his sister, his most important person -- when he was already lonely and unstable and bitter as hell from living in a world that basically offered nothing but prejudice. So he flipped out and decided to screw the entire world and all its people over just for the sake of getting his sister back. Hence horrible soul-stealing religions and systemized torturemurder camps, etc. etc.

Aather reset him to a blank slate and gave him an incredibly good support system and CR base for him to get over his issues, so while he has gotten impressive amounts of cruel ragecrazy back from his memories, he's also developed to be selfaware and morally strong enough to figure out how to deal w/ it and not go be an awful person again.

Are you ever going to run a heartgame for Pascal :Oa...

[uroboric]

Yes! I super want to, but he needs more memories first (specifically end of canon bad ones). I'll probably run one for Kyouko before I do his because she's closer to having her fun memories. In fact I should probably go unlock more of them for her :|a

What's your favourite kind of heart to play in? Like, what kind of elements do you like to see and enjoy?

[antreegonist]

kyaa hearts kyaa

Uhhh it's hard to say because I have had huge amounts of fun in every heart I have ever played in! It is really important to my having fun/being motivated that my character is directed a little into actually doing something in there -- like if the heart actually asks for help or isn't averse to it, or he is invested in the person and knows doing stuff inside their heart could help them (ie. removing the corruption from Zelos's heart, actively attempting to improve stuff in Ryner's against Alpha's wishes.)

I am also one of those people who is hugely predisposed to creating and running hearts rather than playing in them :'D I just try not to do it a lot since I only have the one character and his first game wound up somewhat more damaging to him than I expected.

How different are Aather!Kyouko and Syaoran from their canon incarnations?

[featherfetch]

Lessee :|a

Kyouko: Is way more unstable \:D/

Her canon coping mechanism is to isolate herself from everyone else and use her magic only for her own purposes. Aather makes that kind of impossible for her because a) there's people she gets on with and considers friends and b) the whole team dynamic makes that tricky, even if Iolite isn't really the most cohesive. She's still trying to stick to her guns but it's kind of... awkward... and not working so well.

Part of the reason it works so well for her is because controlling her own situation leaves her less room for despair, and despair is what sinks magical girls in Madoka-verse! So basically having contact with other people lets things like bitterness and hurt and stuff creep in which makes things a little harder for her. For example, in canon she gets betrayed in a big way by her father, but because from that point on she isolates herself it's not an issue going forward. In contrast, in Aather she felt attached to a few people, so recalling that betrayal makes her go THEY COULD DO IT TO ME TOO and react pretty strongly to it.

Pascal:
He's less >O!!! SRS BIZNESS DETERMINATION ALWAYS because his super important driving goal is not really at play in Aather (hunting down his princess's feathers in each world). It could have come up in games, but Amethyst has lots of strong personalities so he's gotten blatantly overidden in games often enough that he's somewhat hesitant in them.

He's also much more insecure in general :|a basically it's hard on him not to have some goal to drive for, that's sort of how he operates so it not being there is like :( though he supplements it a bit with being designated cook. That's the thing I do!!1

And then the whole clone/conditioning/alternate personality/whatever thing. In canon when it comes up he pretty much goes /BLATANTLY IGNORE. It's unsettling and frightening and he mentions it to exactly no one and carries on like nothing happened. Amethyst is full of clones and stuff though so when it came up there, it was actually talked about and theorized on and now he's not really sure what he is or if he's dangerous and that's new and unnerving. Identity is super important to him because he was an amnesiac child, so having his identity called into question is very D8

He's basically coping by making his Aather life his primary identity and that's a big part of the reason why he still goes by "Pascal" even though he learned his real name forever ago. Also he refuses to take skills because Fon got his conditioning back as a skill, so he theorizes that if he's going to get something like that it'll come back to him the same way.

What does Mithos think of being a knight? How does he envision the role of a knight should be ideally?

[antreegonist]

Mithos ingrained 'being a knight' as part of his identity really hard at first, but this has changed! It's fallen out over time so that he now identifies with the character traits he developed through being a knight -- being an independent agent but retaining a sense of responsibility and care as an authority figure, the need to help and protect people, middlemanning as needed, getting involved with things of his own volition and trying to improve them -- but not so much with the 'role' of knight itself.

He's gradually grown more and more dissatisfied with the unfairness of the knight/hero system and the fact that, after all the heroes' hard work, the pivotal choice to free Beauty's realm was still 'to die or not to die' actually tipped him to a point where he was ready to quit the knight system altogether! Three told him and Lloyd that the knight role itself is a tool with dimensions to change Aather that they don't have full knowledge of yet, so they did choose to stay knights and work within the system in order to gain that understanding and use it as they can.

While he still dislikes the system and Sterling has never been a 'team' by any means, he does like a lot of the other knights as people. They all tend to be pretty committed to protecting people and helping them, which is a damn good thing to do no matter what it stems from.

I think I covered what Mithos thinks the ideal knight role should be pretty well! However, his view of the 'ideal knight role' is also probably a bit different from most other knights, because the ideal as presented in Aather is something he helped create with the other original knights -- of which there are only five left! Beauty gave them 'tasks knights must do' as a baseline way back in the beginning, but the existing knight philosophy is something they came up with for themselves and then passed on as gospel to all the knights that followed them. Aather would probably be a very different place now if the twelve original knights way back when didn't have so many loudly heroic helpful types to set the tone in that way.

How do you think Pascal would do if he suddenly woke up a knight one day?